About 80 percent of the sun will be covered in the Texas Panhandle, making it a partial eclipse, and DHDC wants to teach children and their parents about how to safely view it, Executive Director Aaron D. Pan said.

Learn more about eclipses in the Panhandle:

Other Mindfest activities include:

• Leather working: Making bracelets with strips of leather that children can design with metal stamps.
• Construction zone: Build items with wood, hammers, nails and other materials
• Water rockets: Shooting water and pump-powered soda bottles into the air
• UFO Creation: Experiment with ways to make objects that fly
• Take apart a car: Cierra Towing will provide a vehicle for visitors to dismantle and learn how they work
• Bubble station: Experimenting with making bubbles of different shapes and sizes
• Sculptor's paradise: Making pots, cups and other items in a ceramics lab